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BigDoor Seeks to be the AdSense of Gamification

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 11, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

BigDoor is announcing a new platform today that is building an ad network for the gamification space.

Google’s Schmidt: We Would Have Loved for Nokia to Adopt Android

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Speaking with reporters after his keynote speech in Barcelona, Google’s chairman said the door for Nokia to create Android phones remains open, despite its partnership with Microsoft. Schmidt confirmed the company talked with Nokia, but declined to say just how far those talks had gone.

Verve Wireless Acquires Mobile Ad Company Deconstruct Media

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 2, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Verve Wireless, which helps create smartphone applications for newspapers and other publications, has acquired Deconstruct Media, a mobile advertising technology company.

Hearst Is Ready to Show Off Its Skiff E-Reader Platform, but It Doesn’t Want to Tell Quite Yet. Is Anyone Ready to Buy?

Peter Kafka in Media on January 8, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Here’s another e-reader clamoring for attention in a Consumer Electronics Show full of e-readers: The Skiff Reader, produced by a company funded by publisher Hearst Corp. and supported by Sprint. But in many ways, the Skiff Reader’s specs are beside the point, because the real point of its parent company isn’t to produce e-reader devices at all–it wants to create a publishing and distribution platform. Does this sound familiar? And does it sound like something another publisher might want to buy?

A Very Short List: Publishers That Have Actually Told Google to Take a Hike

Peter Kafka in Media on December 21, 2009 at 8:08 am PT

Publishers love to gripe about Google. But they almost never, ever, do the one thing that could put their money where their mouth is: Tell the search giant to leave them out of its results.

Sony Recruits News Corp. to Give Its Reader Line a Boost

Peter Kafka in Media on December 17, 2009 at 8:21 am PT

How do you catch up to Amazon in the e-book race it is running away with? Maybe exclusive content will help. That’s what Sony says it is trying to do with News Corp. and some of its publications. The partnership the two companies announced today won’t be nearly enough to make Sony’s Reader line competitive. But it does point in the direction both companies would like to head.

Hearst Plans Digital Magazine, Newspaper Service

Shira Ovide and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 4, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

Publisher Hearst Corp. plans to launch next year a service called Skiff to sell digital versions of newspapers and magazines on electronic readers and other devices, in a system it believes will be more visually appealing to readers and more lucrative for media companies.

Condé Nast’s Offering for Apple’s Mystery Tablet: Wired Magazine

Peter Kafka in Media on November 18, 2009 at 1:19 pm PT

Here’s yet another content creator that’s convinced Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the purported gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 titles. But Condé, like other publishers, says Apple won’t actually talk to the company about its plans for the device–or even acknowledge that it has plans.

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